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Stanbeth Gallery

Exhibition of fashion garments and screenprints on textiles and canvas.
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January 2007. Auckland, New Zealand

 

Madness & Arts World Festival II

Theater "Sycorax"presented the Madness & Arts world festival, moving along the questionable border between normality and madness, inviting one into extraordinary worlds of art.
The festival staged exhibits of contemporary art, and theater productions by ensembles from Japan, Canada, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Poland and Germany.
Prior to the event, the theater had invited artists from all over the world to enter the selection for the theatrical and crazy fashion show. The designs were to have experimental and associative counterparts to current psychiatric illesses and even to the therapeutic methods used to treat them. The artists had to draw inspirations in symtoms and characteristics of "over the edge" mental experiences: depression (lethargy, shame, indifference, indecisiveness, tearless mourning), Mania (delusions, ecstatic conditions, euphoria, excessiveness, compulsive urgency, instability), Schizophrenia (accustic and optical illusions, hallucinations, stimulations, paralysis), Compulsive Disorders, Phobias, Borderline (excessive modd-swings, distorted self images, injury to the self and others), Burnout (resignation, discouragement, feeling of faillure, fatalism).
The DarkStar collection "Psychic Eclipse" was inspired by sound and poetry of techno-electro music of Underworld (with the kind permission of). Nummerous other stories were inspiration for the concept, like work of American rebel and brilliant writer Kathy Acker.
Alive information and help on inner quest at New Falcon publications. A redefinition of hearing voices, by the foundation "Resonance" expressing the idea that auditory ha hallucinations are not necessarily symptoms of illnesses. Among other sources named were also alchemical sources and for the research in archetypal symbology, the work of Carl Gustav Jung.
The collection was made in organic cotton to make the underlining call towards the care for environment and fake napa as call for compassion with animals.
The fashion show took place in a beautiful industrial environment of the "Osmo Hallen" and had a theatrical expression with the modern electronic performed live.
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May 2006. Münster, Germany

 

Group exhibition, ABC Treehouse Gallery

"Through the eyes of the Tango" II exhibition anniversary of Carlos Gardel image is inspired by the collective nature of dance as in electro techno music. The passion of tango is contained in the movement and emotion of the dancer, but the classic gender borders are crossed, the dancer dances alone projecting its natural, unrestricted, primitive part of its mind's activity onto the missing form across the background of the night sky. Still in it's butoh like relation, the dancer is not alone in the presence of many layers of the consciousness of the creation... For the Abc Tree gallery exhibition, two canvases on linen are created, in mixed technique (screenprint, stamping and painting ), dimensions 50X50 cm. The tango outfit was created in plastic, fake napa and other synthetic fabrics, with DarkStar print. It consisted of a frilled stola, a corset, an asymetrical skirt and an asymetrical silver pettycoat.
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March 2006. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Group Exhibition, Intermezzo

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October 2005. Dordrecht, The Netherlands

 

Duo [hart-world.com] Exhibition, Arte Vista

Artist Petra Hart had depicted members of her "Family Li" wearing DarkStar garments. They were exhibited at the Pop-Art gallery "Arte-Vista" in Amsterdam.
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September 2005. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Rietveld Graduation Exhibition

During the three years at the Rietveld Academy, the artist studied textiles as well as fashion. The final year exhibition also showed examples of screenprinting work.
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July 2005. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Nemo Technological Museum

The Rathenau Institute and the science center Nemo, organised the "Homo Sapiens 2.0" event. Artists were invited to take a look at both ends of the modern man's situation visiting the extremes inbetween a scientific dream that comes true and the nightmares; with the focus on cloning, genetics, pharmaceutics, cosmetic surgery, cybernetics etc.
An outfit in organic cotton and plastic was created, inspired by the chemical and pharmaceutic industry and its counterpossibilities in natural approaches to life and the environment.
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November 2003. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Vroege Vogels Festival

DarkStar created a costume for a stilt walker, on behalve of the Goedewaar platform for the aware consumer. Goedewaar made the choice for organically grown cotton, died in bright pink and orange colors, providing a colorfull accent to the event. The costume expressed the joys of nature through intricate pleatings and nummerous frills forming a flower like form. Other talented artists contributed with a bag, and a beautiful head piece made of cotton buds.
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2003. Apeldoorn, The Netherlands